This whole notion that one victory can turn a season around, come on with that. Seriously, when can one win, regardless of how dramatic, trigger a club to higher ground?
That’s the stuff of fiction, isn’t it?
Oh, wait. What? The Mets on July 31 last year? A home run off the bat of Wilmer Flores?
Well, for crying out loud.
One year to the day later, though perhaps not quite the stuff of such melodrama, the Mets were elevated again by a late-inning blow, this a three-run job off the bat of Neil Walker that turned a 4-3 deficit into a 6-4 lead and victory over the Rockies that was punctuated by Jeurys Familia’s perfect ninth inning.